Word: matter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chuckled over TIME'S mild rebuke to Reader De Boer, but fear that some readers may have missed the delicate subtlety of "that extended little finger." People who say "was graduated" are like those who pronounce the "i" in parliament and the "t" in often. As a matter of fact the dictionaries allow either the transitive or the intransitive use of the verb, but the stately OXFORD says of "was graduated": "now rare except...
Scores of cities will be blotted out in the first few hours of any future war, and the victory gained or lost in a matter of days. Under conditions like these the best that can be hoped for is a Pyrrhic victory. Though the purchase of peace at any price would be both cowardly and foolish, the goal of world peace becomes the paramount aim to which effort and time must be directed. In this drive for peace the contribution of the United States is twofold. It must preserve a strong and healthy home economy...
...checked by observing the spectra of stars, especially the dense "white dwarfs," which ought to have intense magnetic fields around their close-packed matter. It might even be proved in earthly laboratories, by spinning large masses of nonmagnetic material, such as bronze, and seeing whether they generate their own magnetic fields. Here was a fascinating assignment for a skillful (and well-financed...
...psychiatrists' experience in two important ways: 1) it had taught them that there are many more psychoneurotics at large than anyone had previously imagined (of all Army inductees, a startling 12% were rejected for mental disorders); and 2) it had provided clinical proof that no one, no matter how calm and complacent, is immune to psychoneurosis if the emotional strains get tough enough...
Umberto II of Italy was the latest jobless monarch to eye the U.S. as a tourist. He had a lot of friends there, said he, and it was just a matter of packing...